Apple Inc.’s top executive overseeing its Siri virtual assistant told staff that delays to key features have been ugly and embarrassing, and a decision to publicly promote the technology before it was ready made matters worse.

Adding a voice assistant to the iPhone in 2011 was prescient. Since then, Siri hasn’t seemed able to catch a break. Why should that change now? Before I go any further, a programming note: On Thursday,

Per the inside account of Apple’s issues, Robby Walker, a senior director in Apple’s Siri division, held an all-hands meeting for the team and acknowledged that things were…not great. He acknowledged that team members might feel angry,

The BBC - along with civil liberties groups and some US politicians - argue the case should be heard in public.

U.K. rights groups have asked a British court to open a hearing Friday on Apple’s bid to avoid building spy capability into its encrypted cloud storage.

A London court hearing, reported to be Apple's appeal against a British government order to create a "back door" to its encrypted cloud storage systems, was held in secret on Friday, with media not allowed to attend despite a formal request.

Google's competing earbuds already have it, but now Apple could be entering the world of instant language translation.

Apple plans to add a live translation to its AirPods via an iOS 19 update coming later this year. As Bloomberg reports, your iPhone would listen to someone speaking in another language and relay the translation to you via your AirPods.

Though I'm not a Ferengi, I'm looking forward to a similar feature that reportedly will reach Apple AirPods later this year. Also: Apple reveals the secret to updating every AirPods model - and it's easier than you think In a Bloomberg story published Thursday,